Revolutionary wealth / Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler.
Toffler, Alvin.; Toffler, Heidi, 1929-2019.
2006
HB3730 .T64 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Revolutionary wealth / Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler.
Author Toffler, Alvin.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0375401741
9780375401749
Publication Details New York : Knopf, 2006.
Language English
Description xvi, 492 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HB3730 .T64 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 339
Summary Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our "third job"--the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations. In earlier work, they coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume what they themselves produce. Here they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities--parenting, volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council--pump "free lunch" from the "hidden" non-money economy into the money economy that economists track.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-466) and index.
Added Author Toffler, Heidi, 1929-2019.
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1: Revolution
Spearheading wealth
The child of desire
2: Deep fundamentals
Waves of wealth
Deep fundamentals
3: Rearranging time
The clash of speeds
The synchronization industry
The arrhythmic economy
The new timescape
4: Stretching space
The great circle
Higher-value-added places
Spatial reach
An unready world
Thrust reversers
The space drive
5: Trusting knowledge
The edge of knowledge
Tomorrow's "oil"
The obsoledge trap
The quesnay factor
Filtering truth
Trashing the lab
The truth managers
Coda: convergence
6: Prosuming
The hidden half
The health prosumers
Our third job
The coming prosumer explosion
More "free lunch"
The music storm
The "productivity" hormone
Coda: invisible channels
7: Decadence
The gospel of change
Implosion
Corroding the wires
Complexorama
The sepulveda solution
Coda: after decadence
8: Capitalism's future
Capitalism's end game
Converting capital
Impossible markets
Running tomorrow's money
9: Poverty
The old future of poverty
Twin tracks to tomorrow
Cracking poverty's core
10: The new tectonics
China's next surprise?
Japan's next bamboo ring
Europe's lost message
Inside America
Outside America
The unseen game of games
The prologue is past.

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